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Philadelphia Inquirer
MARI A. SCHAEFER, INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
LAST UPDATED: Thursday, June 20, 2013
A Presbyterian church deacon, Sunday school teacher and basketball coach has been charged with downloading child pornography, the Delaware County district attorney’s office announced today.
Steven Daniel Almond, 54, of Parkside, a deacon at the Middletown Presbyterian Church, surrendered to police Thursday morning and was being held at the Delaware County jail in lieu of $350,000 bail, officials said.
He was charged with “disseminating” photos and films “of child sex acts” and related crimes, according to public records, which gave the following account:
Investigators traced 11 pornographic “files of interest” to an account used by Almond. When he was contacted by police at his home, Almond said he did have files of teenage pornography on his computer. He estimated he downloaded 30 videos of child pornography to his computer with the youngest victim being “13 to 14” years old.
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